Archive for January 2011

There is a common knowledge that Django is not suitable for writing small ad-hoc projects that don't need anything special apart from displaying some HTML. Boot-strapping a Django project is considered a work substantial enough to not bother with it just for a couple of functions. It was always "obvious" ...

Though the code of highlight.js was always open the library was never a real project. There wasn't a place for development discussions, no documentation wiki and no bug tracker. Instead I was just accepting new languages and patches and answered occasional question by mail. Nonetheless the highlighter has somehow managed ...